The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-06
THE NEW YORK s,TRIKE.
The Freight Blockade Causing More Trouble
Than at Any Time Since thu Strike Began.


Than at Any Time Since thu Strike Began.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The freight blockade on
the river front is worse this morning than 1t
was yesterday afternoon. In many instances
the truck men left their wagons in line, last
night, and took the horses to stable and came
back and slept on the trucks. In Roosevelt
square, at o'clock this morning, there was not
SPACE for another truck and the tail end of the
line extended up South street The majority of
these men were waiting to unload on the Clyde
line pier, next to Roosevelt ferry. The men on
the pier were still engaged unloading the steamer
Seminole, which by this time should have been
ready for sailing. Many of the men on the dock
to-day only commenced work yesterday. The
Mallory line was in no better condition. The
steamer Alamo, which was announced to sail to-
day, is at the dock with her cargo in
complete. The street and slips in front
of the pier were lined with trucks,
and the policeman the gate found plenty of
work in preventing the truckmen from fighting
to get on the pier out of their turn. Some of
these men had been on their trucks all night.
At the New Haven freight-line dock the same
block of freight was to be SEEM The Baltimore
& Ohio are receiving freight for Washington
and Delaware generally. On the Ward-lne
| pier the same difficulty to move freight ap-
I parent Pier 8. the Erie freight line, was almost
| deserted. On the North river the blockade was
much worse than the east side. The an
| nouncement by most of the companies that they
would be in position to receive freight caused
| big rush; but when some of the truckmen, hav-
| ing waited all day yesterday. and then un-
| hltched their horses and returned home and
| reported that there was sign of their being
| able to discharge, the merchants saw how USE
less 1t was to attempt to ship freight In large
| quantities One driver in front of Morgans
dock said he loaded up at Thurber's yesterday
| at o'clock. His truck had been in line ever
since that time and at o'clock this morning
there were fifteen men ahead of him. This is
only one of many instances of similar
nature. At pier 2 the Lehigh Valley road opened
two doors and hung board stating Local
freigh. only received" Pier 3. of the Alexandria
line. closed. 1t was stated that at one of
the Pennsylvania piers freight was being dumped
into the cars unfortunately. to be sorted in
transit The New jersey Central piers, ID and
| IA. closed at o'clock The freight offered
could not be handled. The jam OF trucks ex-
tended from pier to pier 16, and it was almost
impossible for the horse cars to get along.
| There is change in the situation IN Brook
lyn. The coal dealers supplying the Jail
| managed to haul little coal to the
place to-day, also TO the almshouse.
The inmates of the latter place were
suffering No assaults were reported. canal
boat load of coal has been waiting to unload at the
| GowanIs canal for ten DAYS. It was ordered from
Jersey for the Brooklyn Benevolent Association.
TO De distributed TO the moor under the auspices
of the ST. Vincent dc Paul Society. The men
refuse to handle 1t, as it came from Jersey Ten
dollars man was offered, but no one would
work
One hundred employees of the Cheeseborough
vaseein works refused TO work to day with "scab'
coal Merchants did try to ship much
freight to-day, and loaded trucks were not
thick along the river front. The most OF the
piers blocked with piles of freight. Ell Paso,
of the Morgan line, sailed to-day, though she
was not loaded. The streets near the piers
choked with trucks which have been waiting "a
hours The steamer New York will take the
freight that was left by Ell Paso.
meeting of the Longshoremen's Union No.
s. was held to-day. A delegate stated that all
the companies. except the Cunard. were
willing to grant the increase of pay.
The men, however, refused to go back until
the grievances of the coal men were adjusted.
The City of Savannah sailed to-day for Savan-
nah with fill cargo. The Aurania sailed for
Europe also.
The Helvetia of the National line, is being
unloaded by her crew, with the aid of some nom
union men.
The Arizona, of the Guion lire, will sail on
Tuesday. The company has plenty of coal
The cargo is being slowed under the supervision
of stevedore who has been with the company
for years. Captain Dures says there is no dan
ger from shifting cargo on their line. Two
boats are at the Morgan pier. and one is out in
the stream. The steamers nearly q week
behind their sailing time.
The strike committee of the Longshoremen's
received were
ing off the men. meeting of stevedores was
held at the Maritime Exchange to-day, to take
action IN regard to the strike of the
longshoremen. The meeting represented
the employers OF nearly Ii, 900 men now on
strike. It was unanimously resolved to notify
the men that they could return to work on Mon
day next by dealing with the stevedores, and at
the samerates as heretofore: that unless they
did return the stevedores would advertise and
employ whatsoever they chose, irrespective of
labor unions. The Iongshoremen have no quar-
rel with the stevedores, and would the latter
claim. gladly return to work if free from the
dictation of the Knights of Labor, by whom
they were ordered on strike to support strike
with which the longshoremen have no concern.
A meeting of merchants engaged in maritime
trade was held at the Produce Exchange
to-day to consider the nongshoremen's
strike and decide upon some plan oil
relieving the trade from its present embarrass
ment Resolutions were unanimously adopted
asserting that the strike is wholly unjustifable,
as there was no trouble between employers and
employees; that its effect is to injure trade and
divert it to other channels, thus subjecting the
business community rs we'll as other working
classes to serious losses that, for the purpose 81
considering the question and of formulating
some plan which shall insure them against SINH
lar occurrences in the future, a committee o.
i, five be appointed to report soon possible Il
the trade. A resolution was also adopted tina
the boss stevedores who will employ men Il
work and to resist the dictation of labor organi
g cations should have the support of tho ship mas
ters.
JERSEY CRY, N. j., Feb. 5-The coal striker
resumed their ola tactics in Hoboken. this morn
ing of obstructing the delivery of coal All o
the approaches to the ferry were lined at at a
early hour with strikers. As the coal Trucks wer
driven to the ferry on their way to New York
the drivers were stopped. and, under threats Q
violence compelled to 60 back to the yards. 1
case the driver offered any resistance he wa
= beaten and the coal dumped in the street
large crowd Of the strikers visited the Pennsy
vania yards, on Hackensack Meadows, at
o'clock this morning. They drove off all tn
men employed there. including switchmen an
brakemen. disconnected cars and stopped a
.e work for two hours
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